The Penn's Grove record., 1887-02-19
NEWS BRIEF.

Queen Victoria has LOW 30 living
grandchildren.
drunkenness in New York City has
decreased so per cent. in ten years.
Nickel lightning rods are said to be
better than others. They will not rust.
Herman Golding, Of Beverly, N. j.,
has died from the effects of q hornets
sting.
A prospector is reported to have
found a nugget worth S62 at Big Creek,
Ore.
"A board of trade will shortly be
established in the city Of Chihuahua,
Mexico.
The bachelors at Lulo, Neb., have
a club, and they wear safety pins for
badges,
AT Calcutta a w~arm-hearted MIL
lionaire has endowed a hospital for SICK
animals.
1t is alleged that parties in Oregon
are canning dog salmon, which are
worthless.
Little bedpost bells rung by cleo.
triclty are now used to waken~ sluggards
in Belgium.
Some New Workers are preparing
to establish coffee houses upon the model
Of those in London.
The failure of Campanini's voice Ia
said to be owing to his indulgence IN
whiskey and settler.
Thirty years ago New York had 8
dozen millionaires; now it has 300 with
out close counting.
Peanut vines IN Kearney county,
Kan, are said to have yielded 30 bushels
to the acre this year.
1t is said that there are immense beds
Of oysters at sea, off the coast of Dare
county, North Carolina.
-Claret drinkers will be glad to learn
that the vintage IN France this year is
better than was anticipated.
Down In Kentucky a BRIDES dress
was described as ''bottle-colored green
silk, - and all undeIstoon 1T.
Atlanta, Ga, prison authorities are
thinking of using the whip on jail birds
who steadily refuse to work.
Enormous catches of striped bass
Ire reported to have been made under
he ice at Barnegat Bay recently.
The letter sheet IS seen but little in
ordinary correspondence. About 10, 900
are sold every day In New York.
An Oregon paper mill gets paper
stock and jute butts from Calcutta for
the manufacture Of MANILA paper.
1t is said that sweet spirits Of nitre
applien to poison blisters as a lotion, is
a quick and sur remedy for ivy poison
ing.
Foster, the Iowa weather prophet,
predicts a hot summer this year, and
advises ice men to harvest extra crops
this winter.
Cape Creton has a native 6 feet 81
inches In height with his boots on, and
Antagonist has a citizen 6 feet 4 inches
in his socks.
Rheumatism has settled in the eyes
Of E. b. Moore, Secretary of State Of
Arkansas, and he is threatened with
total blindness.
The average salary of school
teachers In ST. Louis is S633. 70. Only
rs receive $1,000. Or 1l0l teachers. 1904
receive less than 5000 per year.
The German theatre at Moscow,
which was opened a few, months ago
with great pomp, has been closed ION
account of the indifference of the public.
The Scotch shawl instead of over
coat, and the Highland cap and stream
ers make a fashionable costume worn
by some New York society young men.
Quebec is to have a new hotel cost
ing $500, 900. 1t is to be erected on
the sight of the old parliament building.
A New York architect is making the
plans.
The ruling passion.-A convict in
Sing Sing, IN. " Prison has been dis
covered carrying on a systematic theft
of shirts from the laundry of the insti-
tuition.
Josephine Befannie, an Italian
bootblack of Jersey City, has Just gone
to Italy in first-class style with $4,000,
which he is declared to have made by
shining shoes.
Christopher Colder, an old man
who recently bought a lot in the village
cemetery at Freeport, L. l.. and built
a house on it, has been declared dam
gerously insane.
The st. Paul ice palace is 214 feet
by 1914 feet in size, and the tower is 1876
feet high. An illustration shows it to
be of remarkably handsome architectu-
raj design, and to be surrounded by
facilities for various outdoor sports.
1t is said that the lazy Sultan of
Morocco has the most luxurious tricycle.
rides in the world. He sits cross-legged
upon an embossed couch, e~urtained and
canopied with silk and silver and gold,
while the machinei is being propelled by
slave labor.
The Emperor of China's new throne
at Shanghai is to have its foundation
and pedestal made of gold bricks, and
the sub-prefect of Soochow has sent To
Pekin 5000 pieces of solid gold bricks,
of the ordinary shape Of clay bricks fol
this purpose.